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Robin Ward

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1 month

Please pray for our son Benedict, received into the Catholic Church yesterday.

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3 years

King George V died on this day in 1936. Here he is, mowing the lawn.

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@SymonHill Your behaviour was tiresome, self-serving and out of place.

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From today’s Guardian. 1650. Yes, right …

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2 years

Exciting to hear that the Cosmati Pavement in Westminster Abbey might be uncovered for the Coronation, for the first time since the 17th century.

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4 years

A baroque church planned for the Colosseum, 1675

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@roddreher ‘ it is notable that a mosque is the only religious structure seen on the train from London to Oxford’. Absurd.

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4 years

How it started. How it’s going

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3 years

Twenty Five years on, back for the Silver Jubilee blessing - please pray for us!

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3 years

Oxford Movement

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1 year

Please pray for the repose of the soul of Martyn Gough, priest (SSH 1988-90) and for all who now mourn him.

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Robin Ward

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9 months

East Oxford at 10.30, this car parked across my drive. I ask them to move, they say ‘Are you a Jew?’

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Robin Ward

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3 years

Proud to have brought you ‘key limiting factors’ since 1876.

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Robin Ward

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3 years

This is really peak Church of England

Emma Sivyer

@emma_sivyer

3 years

@FrPhilipMurray Someone I know visited a parish to preside during a vacancy. At the end a lady approached and questioned why the host hadn’t been raised. When asked why this was important to the lady, the answer was, “that’s when I’m supposed to switch the urn on”…. 😂

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A Orthodox woman evidently functioning as a liturgical deacon in Zimbabwe, under the Patriarchate of Alexandria.

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4 months

So term concludes with Sung Mass of S. Aloysius, the 32nd anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood.

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My grandfather’s diary, 1945

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1 year

The Codex with which St Boniface tried to protect himself in vain, bearing the sword cuts which ended in his martyrdom.

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Robin Ward

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2 years

Winning the culture war

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Robin Ward

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9 months

I should emphasise that I am disgusted by this casual anti-semitism which I have not encountered before here. A horrible development.

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Robin Ward

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7 months

Please pray for the repose of the soul of James Whitbourn, composer and Senior Research Fellow at the college, who has died and for his family and many friends who now mourn him.

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3 years

S. Thomas of Canterbury in the apse at Monreale, Sicily. He is also patron of the cathedral in Marsala.

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2 years

Rex Gentium

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Robin Ward

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9 months

I’m delighted to have received this copy of Dr Pusey’s corporal, originally made by Mother Marian Hughes, the Church of England’s first nun. Made impeccably by Maris Stella Vestments.

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Robin Ward

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2 years

Preparing for my 30th anniversary Mass …

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2 years

An extraordinary communication from Canterbury Cathedral about the consecrations on Thursday, which apparently are too controversial to be seen by the public.

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Robin Ward

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4 months

@gavinashenden I really do think that you are grossly over-estimating the approbation you think these people want from you and the chairman of the Latin Mass society.

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Robin Ward

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7 months

This dense work is yet another conclusive demonstration that the whole ‘Mass facing the people’ innovation has no historic liturgical basis. Sadly it is probably too embarrassing yet for people to admit that the money spent and the damage done has all been a huge mistake.

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Robin Ward

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2 years

Holidaying criticism is a bit unfair, but I do think that on the whole 8am BCP Holy Communion for ten people should not last for fifty minutes.

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Robin Ward

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7 months

Save the Parish!

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4 years

Welcome Lenten sun

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3 years

I became vicar of St John’s Sevenoaks 25 years ago today. Ten happy years to follow in a great parish.

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11 months

God save the King!

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3 years

Queen Victoria’s chapel in the old conservatory at Buckingham Palace. Very pleasing pre-Tractarian Anglican liturgical setting.

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2 years

I’m pleased to say that both consecrations will now be live-streamed.

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St Ignatius Loyola, attending Anglican services in Jericho since 1868.

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This is quite an assertion on the Truro diocese website.

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All you need to know, really

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4 years

is very pleased with the new college Arms and Badge

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2 years

Off to join the Proclaimers. God save the King!

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4 years

Here's a nice picture of Michael Ramsey wearing the Palatine tiara.

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The college is very pleased to announce that as patron it has presented the Revd Martha Weatherill (SSH 2015-17) to be the new vicar of the parish of Cowley St John in Oxford. Martha is currently priest-in-charge of Lavant and Rural Dean of Chichester.

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The Church of England

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1 year

If only …

guntiiiii

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1 year

A daily reminder that the UK is literally the last remaining medieval government

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Robin Ward

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3 years

Very sorry to learn that @ChurchTimes has cancelled Serenhedd James’ diary column - losing a much needed UKME Anglo-Catholic voice hardly seems much of a commitment to diversity.

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Robin Ward

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2 years

After two thousand years of faffing about, now we know it’s actually about the boiler.

Madeleine Davies

@MadsDavies

3 years

“At last people will see that this Christian faith that we share means something. It is actually being lived out in really, really hard, painful decisions — like what you do when you replace your boiler.” The best way to to become a younger church?

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The Archbishop of Canterbury said this to the Lambeth Conference. What the great Bishop Butler in fact said to John Wesley was this ‘Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing’. Who fact checks this stuff?

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2 years

Gaudete!

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Robin Ward

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3 years

@ClarkeMicah I saw two police officers on foot patrol on the Cowley Road this morning, for the first time I can remember. They were enforcing mask wearing in Sainsbury’s.

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Robin Ward

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1 year

Media contact the college this morning: is the Principal available to go on the wireless at the weekend? The Principal: feels smug, starts running over the details about armills and supertunicas. The Producer speaks to the Principal: you have strong views about ducks in fonts?

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Robin Ward

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4 years

Not all Church of England jobs are 0.6 stipend for four days a week and Sundays:

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4 years

This is just wonderful in every respect

BBC Archive

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"Everybody you see has got a smile on their face." #OnThisDay 1962: Tonight asked Londoners if the change of season had put a Spring in their step.

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4 years

The Assumption of John Wesley, died on this day 1791.

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8 months

@jdflynn Universal English Anglican practice until the 1970s.

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2 years

From the National Cathedrals Leadership and Governance Conference on at the moment.

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Robin Ward

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4 years

A very happy Easter to all members of St Stephen’s House, past and present, and to all our friends and benefactors.

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1 year

An M R James moment - an abandoned garden next door to us, within which is the base of a ruined temple. But who still trims the topiary at the entrance?

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Mass this morning

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Inside of the Aumbry outer door, All Saints’ Convent Chapel, East Oxford.

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Mutual flourishing in the spelling culture war here.

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4 years

One of the three candidates for German Chancellor likes dressing up as the Bavarian Prince Regent. Oh yes.

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Robin Ward

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3 years

@DrFrancisYoung @john_ritzema The British Ambassador to Paris at the time spoke grammatically flawless French with no attempt at an accent. When asked why he said ‘Say por montrey kjay lar flot arnglaz derrier mwa’

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3 years

Huge excitement here at the seminary this morning as the new banner arrives.

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4 years

The Ragyndrudis Codex, showing the sword cuts made as St Boniface held it up to ward off blows as he was martyred.

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3 years

@giles_fraser I’ll come and cover two Sundays in a row for you. When do you want to have some time off?

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5 months

Come, Thou holy Paraclete, And from Thy celestial seat Send Thy light and brilliancy: Father of the poor, draw near; Giver of all gifts, be here; Come, the soul’s true radiancy.

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Robin Ward

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5 months

Very many congratulations to Father Edward, sometime Vice Principal of St Stephen's House.

Chichester Cathedral

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The King has approved the nomination of The Venerable Dr Edward Dowler, Archdeacon of Hastings and Priest-in-Charge of St John the Evangelist, Crowborough, both in the @Chichesterdio , to be appointed as Dean of Chichester.

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5 years

Setting up a portable altar for Mass in the college garden for the residents to watch from inside their flats.

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Robin Ward

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4 years

Peak absurd

Graham Tomlin

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4 years

Don't remember that rubric In Common Worship...

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Oh dear

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3 years

First flag raising

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7 months

Is contemplating crazy diocesan boundaries of former days.

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7 months

Solemn Matins about to begin

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Robin Ward

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4 years

Intrigued to discover that Queen Victoria was proclaimed Queen conditionally, in case Queen Adeleide was discovered to be pregnant.

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Robin Ward

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4 years

Pueri Hebraeorum portantes ramos olivarum, obviaverunt Domino, clamantes, et dicentes: Hosanna in excelsis.

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3 years

So term begins!

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The nightmare of woke crackers.

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O Oriens

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2 years

The Communion Office in the Coronation rite has a distinctive Offertory.

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Interesting way of rendering Grenadier Guards into Latin.

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Robin Ward

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2 years

Here is the Deputy Prime Minister singing the Domine salvum fac. Oh yes.

Ben Phillips

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Exceptionally sound. Congratulations @theresecoffey

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At St Enodoc

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The Dorset poet and clergyman William Barnes wrote a manual of Logic in which all the classical terms were replaced with Anglo-Saxon ones.

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@ChrisReesBettws John V Taylor at Winchester didn’t like wearing one. A mitre was carried in front of him at his enthronement, causing Graham Leonard’s wife Priscilla to genuflect to it, thinking it was the Blessed Sacrament in a pyx.

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O Oriens

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St Ambrose

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At the Halls Ball last night

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Metropolitan Kallistos taught many students at SSH, and lived for a time with SSJE in the 1950s. Please pray for him.

Orthodox London

@OdoxLDN

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Your prayers for His Eminence Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia who is now moving into the final stage of this life. Thanks be to God - he is not in severe pain. He has received anointing and the Holy Mysteries. He is quite calm and repeatedly gives glory to God for all things.

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O Adonai

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3 years

St Stephen’s House from the air - neatly hidden behind the little houses of East Oxford.

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Robin Ward

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1 year

None of these labels is ‘abstract’. And is being polygamous now like being a Jesuit?

Christopher White

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1 year

Fr. Timothy Radcliffe at the start of the next #synod session says: "So many people feel excluded or marginalized in our church because we have slapped abstract labels on them: divorced and remarried, gay people, polygamous people, refugees, Africans, Jesuits!"

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Robin Ward

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5 years

@RevRichardColes Watching the large chunks of ice drop from the sides of a defrosting freezer is very therapeutic, a bit like icebergs separating from glaciers. Get a chair and a book and sit there all afternoon.

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Robin Ward

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4 years

Very pleased to have been shown a baroness’s coronet at Pusey House this morning.

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